A lexical database is an organized description of the lexemes of a language.

A lexical database attempts to approximate the lexicon of a native speaker.

It includes an inventory of known morphemes and information about their meanings.

For each sense of a morpheme, it includes such things as:

• a part of speech designation
• a definition
• sample sentences to illustrate this sense
• cultural annotations to indicate its significance, and
• identifiction of semantic relationships with other morphemes.

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library. Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.

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